Police Officers stationed at school gates to deter knife crime?

BlueBelle

That wouldn’t be necessary all school gates could have a metal detector arch like they do for the young people raves my grandkids go to the big cities to festivals and things and they have arches to go though which detect any knives or metal objects etc They ve never seen any stabbings at them thankfully

Not so simple, going through the airport metal detectors with all the other innocent items to trigger the detector it’s a major operation.

My son's secondary school 11 years ago had a police station next to it and dedicated officers who patrolled the school. It was an all boys school and I didn't think much of it until he started there. I quickly realised why they were there and I have to say we moved him after 2 terms. I find it quite repellent that this is a necessary thing or even something that we are considering!